Herman Kahn's Books
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The Economist, November 13, 2009
...and never more so than when encouraged by foreign commentators. Professor Vogel's flattering portrait of Japan, like Herman Kahn's study on the Japanese superstate nearly 10 years ago, has become a favourite on Tokyo's television chat shows, and sales in...
Santa Fe New Mexican, November 1, 2009
...War: A History. Some are instructions for using or at least threatening to use nuclear weapons, like physicist/futurologist Herman Kahn's 1960 On Thermonuclear War. Others are impassioned arguments for abolishing them, like the two volumes of...
Washington Post, September 9, 2009
...of previously unnoticed linkages.' The book includes mini-essays on topics from Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' to Herman Kahn's marathon lecture series on thermonuclear war (which helped inspire Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' a few years later), the...
Washington Post, September 5, 2009
...of previously unnoticed linkages.' The book includes mini-essays on topics from Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' to Herman Kahn's marathon lecture series on thermonuclear war (which helped inspire Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' a few years later), the...
Boston Globe, August 19, 2009
...Kaplan diminishes the impact of his narrative by following his chapter on comedy with one on the futurist Herman Kahn, without an effective segue. Kahn, who outlined a doomsday scenario of survivable nuclear war, comes across as the madman he was and the...
Boston Globe, August 19, 2009
...Kaplan diminishes the impact of his narrative by following his chapter on comedy with one on the futurist Herman Kahn, without an effective segue. Kahn, who outlined a doomsday scenario of survivable nuclear war, comes across as the madman he was and the...
Slate Magazine, May 13, 2009
...that the literature of real-world nuclear strategists had internalized the tropes and techniques of nuke porn. (Nuclear strategist Herman Kahn's elaboration of a 44-step ladder of escalation deliberately used the rhetoric of porn: Step No. 4: 'hardening...
Stop Smiling Magazine, December 12, 2008
...of scholars to weigh the cultural and anthropological aspects of radical Islam with the precision and rigor that Herman Kahn employed in his 1962 evaluation of nuclear deterrence, Thinking About the Unthinkable ? and a president who might heed their...
News From The West, September 30, 2009
...Culture, co-founder: David Horowitz Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, President: Joel Rosenthal Hudson Institute, Founder (deceased): Herman Kahn President: Herbert...
ArmsControlWonk, May 23, 2009
...participants, including Halperin, moved from Cambridge to Washington to help Presidents Kennedy and Johnson enact their ideas. 7. Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (1960) and Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962). A two-fer. These books, which...
ArmsControlWonk, May 23, 2009
...participants, including Halperin, moved from Cambridge to Washington to help Presidents Kennedy and Johnson enact their ideas. 7. Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (1960) and Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962). A two-fer. These books, which...
ArmsControlWonk, May 23, 2009
...participants, including Halperin, moved from Cambridge to Washington to help Presidents Kennedy and Johnson enact their ideas. 7. Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (1960) and Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962). A two-fer. These books, which...
Atomic Razor, April 30, 2009
...Hudson Institute > Herman Kahn A scan of Herman Kahn's The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years . I think they had a copy of this in the library...
